Death of a Game: Warcraft III Reforged

Death of a Game: Warcraft III Reforged
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https://playwarcraft3.com/en-us/
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https://www.pcgamer.com/au/warcraft-3-reforgeds-story-isnt-changing-to-fit-wow-because-people-love-the-voice-actors/
https://www.polygon.com/2019/11/1/20944518/warcraft-3-reforged-story-retcon-world-of-warcraft-wow

How to switch from classic to reforged graphics in Warcraft 3: Reforged


https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/warcraft-3-players-upset-missing-features-reforged-release-1320634/

Features that were removed from original Warcraft 3 with the launch of Reforged from warcraft3


https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/warcraft3/t/reforged-is-a-forced-downgrade-for-classic-users/14852
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Blizzard absorbs Activision Studio after dismantling the classic game team


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https://liquipedia.net/warcraft/Warcraft_III_Invitational
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  1. I love WoW and wc3, but this last decade has been like constantly being punched in the balls and then giving an ice pack, but these last couple months are like getting punched in the balls then pushed over, spat on, and kicked in the ribs

  2. Thankfully SC2 finished before all of this happened and I'm very glad that didn't preorder it like I did with SC2. Now I can say without any doubt, never preorder any game and only get them a couple of years later during a sale

  3. Blizzard of today basically pillaged one of the greatest piece of software ever released(Eard about OpenGL? I mean it even produced breaktroughs in 3D developpment) and one of the greatest video game / mod incubator of all times and did not even managed to make profit out of it. There are shitty moves all over the gaming industry but this one is heartbreaking and literally retarded, it's like terrorists bombing archaeologic sites. The decision makers at acti/Blizz don't even understand the history of their products…

  4. The Lambslaughter of Custom Games really cost me my favorite game ever, and D2R is the last game i'll ever get from this company and its because it was gifted to me.

  5. Absolutely nothing wrong with this remaster. F multiplayer. It’s about story telling and gameplay. This game was great. Stop the millennial whining. Wait we know they are incapable of not whining.

  6. You talk about wc3c ladder a lot and so does the community. I like playing a couple melee matches in wc3 now and then and lose more often than not when I get an opponent who vaguely knows what he’s doing. I’m afraid of starting on wc3c cause I expect players to be much better than on random matchmaking and crush me to dust if that makes sense with their over 10 years of experience in this game.. I mean to download a custom file to play a ladder requires you to be somewhat dedicated right

  7. Warcraft 3 wasn't murdered, it was ASSASSINATED and the killer went around wearing its skin like Leatherface. Warcraft 3 Reforged is like finding Bob Ross on set and gunning him down in front of all his fans and then dancing on his corpse while gunning down the camera men. There are no words which accurately describe the pain that Reforged represents.

  8. It pains me to see the largest game of my childhood done such injustice and my loyalty to the company for 15+ years betrayed. Occasionally I look up if the game is being worked on and am still silently hoping the title will be restored to its former glory, despite the apparent downfall and lack of a possible good outcome. Let us grieve the death of our childhood/adolescence's beloved Warcraft together.

  9. The worst part about WC3 Refunded is that they killed the original game in the process of making that trash heap. That's why I refunded it. It's also why I'll never purchase another game from them again. When I'm done playing classic wotlk I'm done with their games for good.

  10. Whenever I play a new multiplayer game, I like skipping 'casual' gameplay and go straight to ranked. Sure, I'll get my ass kicked at first, but shortly I'll end up in a league with players of similar level as I. And THAT'S when I can start to play and understand the game, and end up growing as a player, especially since you never know what kind of players are strutting through the casual queue. However, not only did the 'ladder' get disabled in reforged, THERE WAS NO REGIONAL MATCHMAKING. I think I played like 10 matches before I uninstalled Reforged, out of which 7 or 8 of them were simply unplayable, due to me having ~400 ping, playing on Asia servers, or 170-200 ping, playing on NA servers. Me being EU.
    I only won 2 matches, one against a person who confessed to being so new, that he was reading the tooltips of every single unit or building he was clicking, and another one against some Korean dude, who gave me the win after I told him I was new AND playing on 400 ping.

  11. its sad I would of loved this game to be amazing the memories i hold are dear to me but they messed up so bad. Weirdly EA managed to come back to the
    Command & Conquer the remaster is top quality they did such a great job remastering and listened to fan feedback in the past they didnt but they made sure this would be amazing and did just that shame blizzard couldnt do that for warcraft

  12. This kind of salt the earth style of acquisition is actually extremely profitable. You buy up a big company that's a bit smaller than you, dump enough money in to get total control, gut the people who don't bend the knee or cause problems. That removes the safety net of the lower employees, the workhorses you need, and makes them unsure of their position and future there. You then give them a project that sounds good, seems okay on paper so they initially go in eager and work. After a while you start cutting the budget, restricting them more and more and if they succeed then awesome, you got a great game and made tons and tons of money. If they fail it's almost never going to be this catastrophic. With all the money you saved from budget cuts, removing the people who commanded huge paychecks and hustling everyone to push the project faster you still make a huge amount after the nostalgia causes people to just buy it anyway. So worst case you make just a huge amount of money, best case you make an insane amount of money. Once you roll those dice you leave. Oh and by "you" i mean the CEO or head of the bigger company. You are basically doing this because it results in 5-10 years of "work" pumping up the shares and profits before you leave with a few hundred million dollars in a parachute not to mention whatever you got paid for that time.

    They don't make stupid decisions to ruin Warcraft III for everyone, they skin the franchise, make dice from its bones and roll them to see how much money they make. Not if they make it, how much. As I said this kind of plan is extremely hard to fuck up, this is one of the only times I have seen it actually fail but even then they make enough parading out the rest of the corpses they purchased to break even at worst. It's disgusting but it keeps working so I can't exactly blame them. The corporate machine doesn't care for you or anybody else, it cares only for money.

  13. Leading up, I already knew it was gonna be a huge flop. However, I underestimated just how bad it was ultimately. It's really impressive what a greedy triple a company can do to botch something.

  14. When a company self-sabotage one of the franchises that put them where they are shows it deserves hefty backlash and hell, closure.

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